Paris: Baudouin Freres, Pollet, Barba, et al, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832. Hardcover. Around 50 plays by various authors of the period, and issued by several publishers, collected into very pretty and well-preserved volumes, numbered 1 to 12. Contents have a fair amount of foxing, generally minor. 16mo, 12x8cms, in..... More

London: Westley and Parrish, 1824. Hardcover. [ii], 414pp, illustrated with many diagrams, and including index. Wonderfully various and buzzing with discoveries and inventions. Contents clean, although with a considerable amount of offsetting. 1952 ownership name on ffep. Small nick to bottom edges c.p230-p280, where something had been pressed into edge..... More

[London:]: 1822. Hardcover. (ii), 638pp: many pages folding, with tables. All entries in contents pages (1-4) ticked with blue crayon: very occasional pencilled notes in text. One page edge frayed where left protruding, and pp37-50 knocked to the edge, with a small tear. Contents otherwise in very fresh order. A...... More

London: Joseph Mawman, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. xii, 451, (1), 91. A wonderful conspectus, packed with tables and argument. Contents clean, with occasional minor foxing. Large quarto, 12.5 x 10 ins, a hitherto unbound copy, all edges uncut, and now in a new quarter binding of light blue paper-covered boards..... More

London: Printed for the author, and sold by Champante and Whitrow, Jewry St.... and at the British Directory Office:, n.d. [1805-06]. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. Vol I: iv, 454; Vol II: [vi], (iii-)480; Vol III: (vi), (3-)500; Vol IV: (viii), 624. With the folding map and 64 of the 66..... More

London: printed for John Barnes at the London Gazette, 1749. Presumed first and only edition. Pamphlet. [ii] (title page), (9-)50pp. Pamphlet. A response to Bolingbroke's Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism. The text starts at p.9, and there are no signs of prelims having been removed. One-inch chip from corner..... More

London: printed by H.Parker for A.Bettesworth, 1728. Third edition. Hardcover. xii, 276pp, with the 12 folding plates, all in good order, a few with minor repairs. [Stub of leaf torn away between pages 80 and 81 unexplained as plates all present.] Head- and tail-piece decorations. Pages slightly toned but otherwise..... More

London: Printed for W.Rogers... and J Pemberton, 1710. First edition. Hardcover. [4], xxvi, [2], lxxv, [1], 324. Pages very clean and fresh, with a faint tide mark to the title and dedication pages, and to a few leaves of the preface. Neatly written in an early hand are also a...... More

Dublin: for the use of the Author: printed by [Vol.I] S.Powell and [Vol.II] E.Waters, 1708. First thus compiled. Hardcover. Vol I: [vi] preface, 56, 60, 27, 464, [14] appendix, [2] contents; Vol II: [viii] (incl.contents), 625. But for a few in Vol II, each sermon has its own title page..... More

Lugdunum Batavorum (Leiden): Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1651. First edition. Hardcover. [xiv], 576, [13]; with additional engraved title, a portrait, and 74 anatomical plates (all called for), of which 6 are folding. Latin text. Professional tissue repairs to top edges of first five leaves, and to some of the foldout plates..... More

London: Printed by I. Okes, for Humphrey Mosley, 1638. First edition. Hardcover. [xiv]*, 323pp +[blank]. The imprimatur leaf has small repairs to its slightly frayed edges, and an 1826 ownership name in sepia to the back of it has bled through to the front. No other marks. Pages in very..... More